that angela merkel days they say if you know if you can observe her directly over the period of eight years wouldn't i be more important than what really shake her by and large what we're trying to understand is what are the emotional levers what are the buttons that push this person to what degree is this person under full rational control to what degree is this person scarred by painful experiences may i give an example with saddam hussein absolutely go have i assessed him from my base at george washington university and one of the things i was very distressed by was that he was being called the madman of the middle east and i was really couldn't quite concerned that this misdiagnoses from my point of view was going to lead to really flawed decision making because he was a rational political co-curator who often miscalculated for two reasons one he had a very ethnocentric view of the world didn't really understand the west but more importantly he was surrounded by a group of sycophants who told him what he wanted to hear rather than what he needed to hear so it's very important in l